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My least favorite part of returning from an extended vacation from home is buying groceries. We’ve spent the week or two leading up to departure trying to use everything up, and then the first trip when we get back is the basic milk/juice/bread/eggs kind of thing, and then I finally I have to face it: It’s time for me to go shopping for real. That overfull grocery cart is depressing.

I’m mitigating the pain by restocking our cereal online. (What? It’s cheaper this way, plus it doesn’t take up all that room in my cart, leaving more room for gluten-free cookies produce. Yeah, that’s it.)

Here’s three of our favorites sporting excellent prices at Amazon right now:
Kellogg’s Fiber Plus Cinnamon Oats Crunch 3-pack for $7.60 delivered when you buy via Subscribe & Save.
Kashi GoLean Crisp! Berry Crumble 4-pack for $10.61 delivered when you buy via Subscribe & Save.
Kashi GoLean Crunch! 6-pack for $15.91 delivered when you buy via Subscribe & Save.

There. I just marked something off my to-do list. Only… 99 more items to go.

We are home. Home home home home home! Yeah, I’m a little excited. (Related: I do not recommend the New York to Georgia drive in a single day with two kids and a dog. We all survived, but it was looking dicey there around about 10:00 when we were still in South Carolina.)

Anyway, now all I have to do is… wash everything in the world. That’ll be today’s task, and it will let my washing machine know how much I missed it.

If you will be doing a lot of laundry, maybe you’d like to check out this $2 Tide coupon on Amazon, which can be combined with Subscribe & Save on many items for the best savings. Just a suggestion.

Of course, if you really love doing laundry, feel free to come on over here and help me.

If you need to stock up on tissues—and who doesn’t, right now?—take a look at this 6-pack of Puffs Family Boxes at Amazon. It’s just $7.75 shipped when you buy via Subscribe & Save (cancel any time to prevent redelivery).

I’m pretty sure that in amongst the presents we’ve already packed up several months worth of germs while visiting family. I think I’ll go order those tissues right now.

If you have Amazon Prime, there’s still time to order those last few stocking stuffers. And what’s a crowd-pleaser more than chocolate? (Don’t answer that. Some things do not belong in stockings.)

Right now Amazon has a wide selection of discounted holiday candy, and the page says “up to 20% off” but really there’s prices closer to 75% off on some items. And some of those items are things like Hershey’s kisses with mint truffle filling.

Hang on, I think I just drooled on my keyboard.

I’ve not tried the Clif granola bars, yet, but I know my kids love the Clif Kids bars, and that the Clif ingredients tend not to include stuff I’m worried isn’t actually food.

Right now Amazon is showing a 2-pack of White Chocolate Macadamia granola bars—20 bars in all—for just $7.98, or $6.78 shipped when you buy via Subscribe and Save. I suspect this may be a price error (some of the other flavor options show only one box rather than two), but if you want to chance it, take a screen shot of the page and order and cross your fingers. [Edited to add: Looks like the Chocolate Chip granola bars are the same price.]

I’m going to try it. My kids love granola bars and I love that these have extra protein and mostly organic ingredients.

Today’s your last chance to snag a save at Eversave and use coupon code SPOOKY to save $5 on your purchase.

If you’ve never signed up with Eversave before, just creating an account will give you a $3 credit right now, so you could potentially save $8 on your purchase. Of note today—look in the sidebar (it’s an online deal, and should appear no matter what city you choose) is a $50 certificate to Abe’s Market for $25 (or just $17, if you’re a first time buyer with the code). I often order things like gluten-free snack bars and Peeled Snacks from Abe’s, and I kind of love them. With the discount certificate you’re saving a bundle, and unlike some of the recent daily deals (*cough coughSavemore cough coughGadgetGear cough cough*), I can assure you that the customer service at Abe’s is fast and professional.

And really, there’s nothing spooky about that.

Get ‘em while they’re hot—Amazon is running two lightning deals on candy at the moment, and as they’re both Prime eligible, you could still have them in time for Halloween.

Get the Hershey’s All Time Greats Assortment—over 3 pounds of candy—for $9.74 shipped, or choose the Hershey’s Halloween Snack Size Assortment—also more than 3 pounds—for $11.45 shipped.

But hurry; these are Lightning Deal prices and will sell out or expire, fast.

I know, I know; generally speaking, I stay away from the high-sugar, unnaturally-colored food-like items. But that’s why I get total rock-star, cool-mom points on the rare occasions when I succumb.

Also, I my kids love Sour Patch Kids.

Also, my teen just got her braces off.

Also, why am I justifying this? (Oh, mom guilt. You harsh mistress.) Hey, I just bought 3.5 pounds of Sour Patch Kids from Amazon for just under $7 shipped on Subscribe & Save. I’m thinking… Christmas stockings… car snacks for our holiday drive to see the family… whatever. Sweet and sour nommy goodness from the mom who usually doesn’t buy candy? I foresee a lot of hugs in my future.